“Singapore Malay Village”

Mr. George Moerlein traveled around the world for pleasure, between 1884 and 1885 with two companions of similar disposition. The gentlemen visited Europe and Eastern Europe, but it was the Far East that held a special fascination - particularly India, China, Japan and Ceylon where they witnessed “strange sights and scenes.” Upon Moerlein’s return to the States he published a travel volume of his observations, illustrated with brightly colored chromolithographed plates described as “…carefully chosen from a collection of more than 800 original pictures collected during the journey and colored true to nature.”